Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near-minimum $2,622,000 (which will be whittled down to a mere $1,575,000 when Zeckendorf pays off the mortgages). Unbowed, Zeckendorf boomed, "It wasn't so bad," and vowed to stage a bigger show in September-this time with properties worth $20 million on the block...
...subtlety that tries to pass for realism. Restraint is evident here where it is often lacking in other pictures--the photography is not bizarre, but merely piercing, the characters are not extreme, but completely effective. Even the homosexuality of the by-gone actress, Marvis, is not a stumbling block, but a key-stone. I find it rather unusual to be raving about a strip of cellulose, but The L-Shaped Room merits...
...Prevention of Blindness recommends a sunscope built from a large cardboard box with a pinhole at one end, a paper reflector inside the opposite end, and a hole in the side big enough for the viewer to stick his head through. (He has to be careful not to block the rays from the pinhole.) To those who find this too cumbersome, the experts suggest the safest plan of all: stay indoors and watch the eclipse...
...pursuit of his obsessions, Beckwith passed out racist pamphlets that he wrote himself, launched such an aggressive recruiting drive for the local white Citizens Council that its officers finally asked him to desist. He also stood in the doorway of Greenwood's bus terminal to block Negroes trying to integrate the facilities...
Since then, Japan's emergent Socialists have introduced a whole new array of techniques, many more or less nonviolent. The most popular is ushi aruki, or cow-walking. Realizing that they cannot block the overwhelming conservative majority, the Socialists do their best to slow business to a standstill. In balloting sessions, each Socialist member gets up slowly as his name is called, shuffles toward the rostrum with the shortest steps possible. Where it takes 230 conservatives only 15 minutes to vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes...